Improvement in horse-powers



W. H. HOUSE.

HORSE-POWER.

N0.188,638. Patented March- 20,1877.

ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS. I'HOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. HOUSE, OF BENNETTS GROSS ROADS, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWERS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188,688, dated March 20, 1877; application filed February 16, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. Housn,

of Bennetts Cross Roads, in the county of Sampson and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and Improved Horse-Power; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved horse-power for operating cotton-gins and other mills. It consists in acertain combination and arrangement of parts, as illustrated in horizontal section, Figure 1, and in elevation, Fig. 2, in the accompanying drawing.

A is the gin-head, which is located in the gin-house, on the floor B thereof, whereas the gearing for operating the gin is mainly beneath the latter. The driving-shaft G, counter-shaft D, and intermediate shaft E are placed vertically parallel, and provided. with suitable bearings in frame-work F. The driving-shaft O is provided with the usual form of sweep a, and a large toothed gear, b, is keyed on the central portion of the shaft. This gear meshes with a pinion, c, on the intermediate shaft E, which is connected with shaft D by a like arrangement of spur-gear, d, and pinion e; The shaft D projects above the floor B of the gin-house, and a band-pulley, G, is fixed thereon, as shown. From this pulley a twisted or crossed belt, f, passes around the ginhead A.

It is obvious that the rotation of the driving-shaft 0 will impart like motion to the shafts E D, and thereby also to the ginhead A.

- A like arrangement of gearing may be connected with the driving-shaft onthe opposite or left-hand side, as shown in full lines. The lower ends of the shafts D E are stepped in a plate, H, which is supported horizontally in the frame F. Said plate is pivoted at one end, g, so that it may be adjusted in the position shown by dotted lines, Fig. 2, to throw the gear b and pinion 0 out of mesh, for the purpose of arresting the rotation of the ginhead at any moment when desired. The free end of plate His secured by a pin, h, in either positionthat is to say, in the position indicated in full or dotted lines. This gearing may be employed for driving a grist or other mill without in any manner interfering with the operation or function of the gearing which drives the gin.

My improved horse-power may be cheaply constructed, and nearly all its parts are so arranged that they do not take up the space above the floor of the gin-house.

What I claim is The vertical driving-shaft O, the pivoted adjustable plate H, and fastening-pin h, the counter-shatt D, and intermediate shaft E, provided with the meshing-gears b d and pinions c 0, arranged below the floor B, the band-pulley G, fixed on the shaft E above said floor, the ginhead A, and band f, all being combined as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

hi WILLIAM HENRY x' HOUSE.

mark.

Witnesses:

M. (J. RICHARDSON, W. B. ROYAL. 

